[mythtv-users] Questions on PXE booting a frontend

[Ronald Frazier]

I too have had no problem letting my myth backend run dhcp for the
diskless frontend systems and letting my router handle dhcp for
everything else. My dhcpd.conf file is similar to Jelte's, but there
are a few differences. Here is what I have. Don't ask my why I did
things any specific way. I just copied setting from some tutorials and
adjusted accordingly.



default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
#this block has nothing in it...in fact, I don't THINK it's necessary.
I'm pretty sure it's just left behind from
#when I was originally experimenting with some more complex dhcp configurations
}

allow bootp;
allow booting;

group{
        next-server 192.168.0.100;               #IP of TFTP server

        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
        option routers 192.168.0.1;
        option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;

        host frontend1 {
                hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;
                filename "frontend1/pxelinux.0";
                fixed-address 192.168.0.101;
        }

        host frontend2 {
                hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;
                filename "frontend2/pxelinux.0";
                fixed-address 192.168.0.102;
        }
}


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